Ideas to reduce transportation costs
"Right now, more than 80 percent of the trees are 50 years old or older, and there are no young trees. If things continue this way, in 20 years, all jobs related to timber will disappear […]
It is said that lumber is a mass of transportation and logistics costs. After being felled from the forest, the logs are generally cut into 2 to 4 meter logs and then transported to the mountain soil [...].
In response to the challenges facing Japan, such as the super-aging society, declining population, and stagnation of local economies, the "forest cycle," which links forest resources to the creation of local value, has been [...].
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In recent years, Japan's forestry industry has seen a series of demonstration experiments by different industries, including IT companies and machinery manufacturers, against the backdrop of smart forestry and DX. [...].
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Kignas Sekiyu K.K. has begun demonstration sales of carbon offset fuel using forest-derived J-credits created by the Nagasaki Forestry Corporation [...].
The Tokyo Metropolitan Government will hold WOOD Collection (Moku Collection) 2026, an exhibition and business meeting aimed at expanding the use of domestic lumber, on February 12 and 1 [...].
The Forestry Agency held two symposiums in Tokyo on February 3 and 4 to accelerate the development and implementation of new technologies in the forest and forestry [...]
While issues such as stagnant demand for domestic lumber and a shortage of forestry leaders are becoming apparent nationwide, the company boasts the nation's largest production of Japanese cypress and has a CLT (direct [...]].
Nomura Real Estate Holdings, Inc. has announced the "Nomura Real Estate [...]", which covers all timber and timber products procured throughout the supply chain.
Hokkoku Bank signed a Positive Impact Finance (PIF) agreement with Mori Mirai, a timber distribution company, on October 31 [...]
Life Design Kabaya, whose core business is the sale of wooden houses, is promoting a "regional recycling-oriented housing supp [...]" promoted under an industry-government-academia collaboration in Okayama Prefecture.
The percentage of domestic timber in demand for lumber has recovered to over 40%. Forests that are in the process of being logged or have passed their [...].